Charles A Conant

Alexander Hamilton. Charles A Conant

Charles Arthur Conant (July 2, 1861 - July 5, 1915) was an American journalist, author, and promoter who became recognized as an expert on banking and finance. Conant was descended from one of the earliest New England settlers (Roger Conant) and was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. He studied in public schools and with private tutors, and between 1889 and 1901 was the correspondent in Washington, D. C. for the New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin. In 1901-1902 he was in the Philippines to investigate coinage and banking, on a commission organized by the U. S. Secretary of War. He returned to take a positions as treasurer of the Morton Trust Company of New York where he specialized in overseas banking.] In 1915 Elihu Root sent him to Cuba, but he died of a fever there. Alexander Hamilton was born and spent part of his childhood in Charlestown, the capital of the island of Nevis in the Leeward Islands (then part of the British West Indies). Hamilton and his older brother James Jr. (1753-1786) were born out of wedlock to Rachel Faucette, a married woman of half-British and half-French Huguenot descent, [4] and James A. Hamilton, a Scotsman who was the fourth son of Alexander Hamilton, the laird of Grange in Ayrshire. Speculation that Hamilton's mother was of mixed race, though persistent, is not substantiated by verifiable evidence. She was listed as white on tax rolls